Books

Before Violence

Joe Carrlck-Varty’s Before Violence (Carcanet Press, 2026) is a Poetry Book Society Spring Recommendation.

MORE SKY

More Sky (Carcanet Press, 2023), Carrick-Varty’s debut collection, won an Erlc Gregory Award and was shortlisted for both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize.

54 Questions for the Man Who Sold a Shotgun to My Father

54 Questions… (Out-Spoken Press, 2020) is Carrick-Varty’s second pamphlet, published between his award-winning collections.

Somewhere Far

Somewhere Far (The Poetry Business, 2019), Joe Carrick-Varty’s debut pamphlet, won the New Poets Prize.